Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs
Handle the truth that, actually, it's a lot of fuss about nothing that was whipped up into a pop-culture thing for a while and still keeps a few radio hosts in business, but actually has no substance to it and never did? Yeah, they can probably handle that.
Thing is, the ones who actually care at all won't (want to) believe it.
After a couple hundred tries (yes, I suck), I finally got a strike! Now that I did it, I can go on to win all the bowling trophies ever!... said no sane person ever.
Yeah. Those are totally the same thing.
This is more like lining up the ball rolling thing that kids use, seeing where the ball goes, then adjusting your aim based on the result until you get a strike, at which point you screw the ball rolling thing into the floor.
Did they actually change the *process* they use
Yes. You think they just watched the others explode, shrugged, and said, "Huh. Okay, do exactly the same thing again, it might work this time"?
Or are they just getting better at the process they already had, due to practice?
Uh... I'm not sure what you think is going on here. Do you imagine there's some guy called Steve guiding the rockets in with a joystick, and he's only now got the hang of it?
Please stop trying to educate people until you understand how the language actually works.
The English language works based on what words people use, and apparently they "unsecure" more than "unsecured" these days. There's no central authority to appeal to. You can deny the existence of the word "unsecure" if you want, or a particular meaning of it, but it's a bloody useful one to have around. And it has a subtly different meaning to "unsecured" in this context.
No, we re-adopt words ("unsecure" has been around since the century before last) when other words gain new meanings and leave a gap to be filled, or as new technology and new concepts become more prevalent.
BTW "secure" has the same psychological connotations. Just saying...
True, but not to the same extent as "insecure." You might ask someone if they were insecure, but you probably wouldn't ask (meaning the exact opposite) if they were secure.
"Insecure", to me, is far more commonly used to mean "lacking in confidence." If the editors had gone with that, there'd be dozens of posts mocking the choice and insisting that all the router needs is to be told it's beautiful.
Someone who is insecure has insecurities. Something which is unsecure does not have unsecurities.
"Unsecure" has come to take "insecure"'s place since "insecure" gained its psychological connotations (which may have happened around 1980, when "unsecure" started gaining in popularity). So blame psychiatrists.
Gaming has long been used to refer to games of chance. Well before video games existed. Given the context of the rest of the article, I think this is quite clear.
Given where the summary has been posted, i.e. Slashdot, I'd say it's not clear at all.
Furthermore, as another AC has pointed out, headlines are traditionally what people read before they read summaries/articles, so no, the context isn't clear.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board [wikipedia.org] would like to have a word with you. They would like to point out that "gaming" is the traditional word used in this context.
Well a) I don't think they do want a word with me and b) they can piss off, because it means something else now. Especially to the readership of Slashdot.
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Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs
Handle the truth that, actually, it's a lot of fuss about nothing that was whipped up into a pop-culture thing for a while and still keeps a few radio hosts in business, but actually has no substance to it and never did? Yeah, they can probably handle that.
Thing is, the ones who actually care at all won't (want to) believe it.
After a couple hundred tries (yes, I suck), I finally got a strike! Now that I did it, I can go on to win all the bowling trophies ever!... said no sane person ever.
Yeah. Those are totally the same thing.
This is more like lining up the ball rolling thing that kids use, seeing where the ball goes, then adjusting your aim based on the result until you get a strike, at which point you screw the ball rolling thing into the floor.
Did they actually change the *process* they use
Yes. You think they just watched the others explode, shrugged, and said, "Huh. Okay, do exactly the same thing again, it might work this time"?
Or are they just getting better at the process they already had, due to practice?
Uh... I'm not sure what you think is going on here. Do you imagine there's some guy called Steve guiding the rockets in with a joystick, and he's only now got the hang of it?
Blizzard Shuts Down Popular Fan-run 'Pirate' Server For Classic WoW
I honestly thought it had been done in by freak weather conditions.
The pound or pound-mass (abbreviations: lb, lbm, lbm, [1]) is a unit of mass
Try again.
Twitter To Give All New Parents 20 Weeks of Paid Leave
That's very generous, especially if said parents don't even work for Twitter.
Please stop trying to educate people until you understand how the language actually works.
The English language works based on what words people use, and apparently they "unsecure" more than "unsecured" these days. There's no central authority to appeal to. You can deny the existence of the word "unsecure" if you want, or a particular meaning of it, but it's a bloody useful one to have around. And it has a subtly different meaning to "unsecured" in this context.
No, we re-adopt words ("unsecure" has been around since the century before last) when other words gain new meanings and leave a gap to be filled, or as new technology and new concepts become more prevalent.
BTW "secure" has the same psychological connotations. Just saying...
True, but not to the same extent as "insecure." You might ask someone if they were insecure, but you probably wouldn't ask (meaning the exact opposite) if they were secure.
Most unsecure? Or least secure?
Yes.
I'm all for language changing over time
Shush then.
"Insecure", to me, is far more commonly used to mean "lacking in confidence." If the editors had gone with that, there'd be dozens of posts mocking the choice and insisting that all the router needs is to be told it's beautiful.
Someone who is insecure has insecurities. Something which is unsecure does not have unsecurities.
"Unsecure" has come to take "insecure"'s place since "insecure" gained its psychological connotations (which may have happened around 1980, when "unsecure" started gaining in popularity). So blame psychiatrists.
researchers turned to pigs years ago to see if they could lend useful organs
Yeah, perhaps not quite grasping the intricacies of transplant surgery there...
Can't come in to work today. I've got scurvy.
n/c
Magic Kinder Android App Lets Strangers Send Images, Videos To Your Kids
I had no idea so many kids were directly connected to teh interwebs.
Or did you mean directly to devices used by kids, which parents should probably be keeping an eye on anyway?
No, it doesn't.
What was said was "Actually most automated voices are female because a female voice is easier to hear against background noise."
Whether that's true or not, it has nothing to do with how higher pitched sounds travel differently to lower pitched sounds.
That makes no sense. Higher pitched sounds penetrate less and travel shorter distances.
That doesn't contradict what the GP said.
I'm in the same boat. I live in a house
Make up your mind.
One thing I recall about the paperwhite is how slow it was. It actually disrupted my reading to turn a page.
Mine went like that for a while. The most recent update seems to have fixed it.
Half of Scotland's electricity production came from renewables.
The consumption came from deep fat fryers and the Irn Bru factory, obviously.
For everyone screaming "How will that work?! That's illegal! It's hacking!" they are not planning to "h[ij]ack your browser."
They want ISPs' cooperation to hijack and futz with browser traffic and insert popups and warnings and the like.
Gaming has long been used to refer to games of chance. Well before video games existed. Given the context of the rest of the article, I think this is quite clear.
Given where the summary has been posted, i.e. Slashdot, I'd say it's not clear at all.
Furthermore, as another AC has pointed out, headlines are traditionally what people read before they read summaries/articles, so no, the context isn't clear.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board [wikipedia.org] would like to have a word with you. They would like to point out that "gaming" is the traditional word used in this context.
Well a) I don't think they do want a word with me and b) they can piss off, because it means something else now. Especially to the readership of Slashdot.
Is the clue in your username?
Quebec Bill Would Force Internet Firms To Block Access To Online Gaming Sites
"To monitor online gambling,
"Gambling" is not the same thing as "gaming."
Can some editor do their job and fix this?
AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore
Did they say anything about pointlessly capitalising words in headlines?
across four space missions â"
...but we can't get Unicode support working on Slashdot.